I managed my setup manually. This commit ports the existing setup to home-manager. The program module is used to install neovim together with plugins. Custom plugins are now maintained at Gitea / GitHub and loaded via nix as well.
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nixpkgs / nix home-manager
I currently use Ubuntu and installed nix alongside.
This repository contains my personal ~/.config/nixpkgs
folder,
for sharing, inspiration and retrieving feedback.
This includes home.nix
to maintain home-manager
,
see: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html
Disclaimer
This is my personal setup for my local laptop running Ubuntu. I share this for free so everyone can have a look and inspiration or provide feedback to me.
This is not intended to be used by anyone else just by copy and pasting or cloning.
Installation
Install (clone) into ~/.config/nixpkgs
.
Install home-manager
see: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html
Execute home-manager switch
Usage
Add packages to home.nix
and run home-manager switch
.
Folder structure
The folder overlays
contains overlays for nix itself.
E.g. alter packages like patching.
The folder home
is related to extras for home-manager.
It has the following sub folder:
home/files
Holds configuration files.
home-manager doesn't provide modules for all programs.
Those files can be added via xdg.configFile
.
home/modules
Holds nix modules.
Not all programs provide modules out of the box.
I add my own here, which I might create PRs for in future.
home/programs
Holds home-manager programs.
entries.
Each file corresponds to a single program.
Each file is loaded within home.nix
.
home/services
Holds home-manager services.
entries.
Each file corresponds to a single service.
Each file is loaded within home.nix
.
flakes/
Holds structure with specific flakes.
Those should provide libraries and template.
Update
Update can be done via custom-update-system
package which is available within
the overlay.
Manual changes
List of manual needed changes for various reasons.
-
.desktop files seem not to be supported by home-manager yet. They need to manually be linked, e.g.:
cd ~/.local/share/applications && ln -s ~/.nix-profile/share/applications/* .
Or link whole folder:
cd ~/.local/share && ln -s ~/.nix-profile/share/applications
Todos
-
Migrate ssh config (I don't really like to expose customer server names and configs to outer world, how to handle?)
-
Migrate PGP?
- Right now I've installed gnupg2, gnupg, gpg on ubuntu
-
Migrate home manager to use flake for better rollback support if update breaks something.
-
Maybe PR upstream:
./home/modules/programs/languagetool.nix
. -
Migrate other system configurations like keyboard?!
-
Begin migrating further configuration, e.g. php fpm pools and apache config (Again I don't like customer internals in public repo, how to handle?) Does that work? I guess nix (home-manager) shouldn't write outside of user home. Maybe within vm as preparation of switch to nix os?
-
Migrate desktop environment (is that possible? I select it within ubuntu login screen, guess it needs to be installed or registered somwhere in ubuntu) i3-wm, i3, i3lock-color
Ideas
- Maybe I can have a private channel which provides more sensitive info like customer related things and is referenced from here? I then can make that repo private but keep this one here public?
Resources
Some resources I found useful (in no particular order):